Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-10-20
the STATE SHOOT.
Clear Skies and a fine Exhibition
of Workmanship
In Which the Augusta Boys Garry
off the Lions Share of
the Honors.
A Full list Of the Scores in the Vari-
GUS Events,

was favored like the first, with beautifully
clear weather. The day was full better for
shooting than the preceding one and witness
ed some very fine exhibitions of marksman-
ship. The forenoon was taken up with an
exhibition shoot of thirty-six men, ten shots
being fired, five advancing and five retreating,
at thiri class target, six feet high and four
feet wide at a distance ranging between one
hundred and two hundred fifty yards. 1t will
be remembered that at the last shoot the
Frontier Guards shot under these condi-
tions, not as a selected team, but as a CON-
pany. The score made was about 63 per
cent.
Considering the fact that this was a com
pany shoot the score was considered very
fine one and worthy of the Autograph of the
target which afterwards appeared in the Ad-
jutant Generals report. When the Missouri
Division of the regular army met for their
rife practice at Bellevue, Nebraska, last
August it was determined to beat this record.
Thirty-six men were chosen and shooting un-
der the same conditions made the following
score:
Balls 8 s S & g e Miss rsF ssais
These men, it must be remembered, did
not shoot as a company where every
man whether a good marksman or not must
engage in the exhibition, but were selected
from the best marksmen of the various
teams present. Such being the case their
competition with the score made by the
Frontier Guards was by no means an equit-
able one. In order to determine what the
Maine boys could do under similar conditions,
selected team of thirty-six men, the same
number that was employed by the Missouri
men, and the Frontier Guards gave an ex-
hibiton shoot with the following surprising
and gratifying result:
Bulls. c. l. Q. Percentage.
Such a record is one that Maine Militia
men may we'll feel proud of. The target used
in this shoot has been photographed
The time which this shooting occupied was
only six and one half minutes. The follow
ing are the names of the thirty six men com
posing this team:
Co. A, 1st Reg't, Serg't F. G. Rogers; Co.
B, LIST Reg't Capt. c. W. Davis; Co. f, LIST
Reg't Capt. W. S. Choate; Lieut.. E, r.
Bean, Sergt's J A. Fairbanks and Geo. G.
Lower Privts. Samuel B. Chaplin, VIM.
A. Clark, b. NJ. Cross. Co. G. LIST Reg't,
E. j. Cram, w. S. Cummings, and j. V.
Downing.
! Frontier Guards J. H. Rumery, d. I.
Loring, A. M. Bibber, james McDiarmid
E. S. Wade, J. d. Young, w. s. Hume
Co. G. 2nd Reg't, Sergt NJ. G. Gilmore,
Frank Buzzell.
Co. E, End Reg't., Capt. H. M. Weston,
G. S. Trask, w. B. Brown, j. A. McPeters
Co ID, 1st Reg't.. Serg't. G. I. Crockett, D.
Carter; Co. C, 2nd Reg't, Capt. d. W. Nc
Crillis. Coz. c. F. Johnson, Seg't. c. w.
Page; Lieut.. E. E. Hale, Priv. &. Stafford
Co. f 2nd Reg't, Lieut.. w. 7. Pollard, Priv.
A. ID. Dexter; Co. ID, End Reg't, Lieut..
Gsrcelon, Priv. Hodgkins.
At the close of the exhibition shoot came
the novelty skrmsh match. The targets
for this were imitation men, and man on
horseback. Five shots were taken at a man
exposed to view, six seconds, FIVE at man
running double quick time, and five at
man on horseback going double quick time.
This match gave practical test to the skill
of the marksmen, the greatest number OF
hits constituting the winner. The following
is the score: x,